SAHO global search
2,595 records
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… gold to maintain this position. Neighbouring independent states like the Orange Free State and British colonies like …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… are awarded to Winnie and Nelson Mandela by the United States Ross University Medical School in the Caribbean Named … Awarded the Presidential Medal of…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
The term “poor whites” was coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land.[1] This…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… positive subjects had either recently been to the United States or had had sexual contact with other homosexuals who had visited the United States... Our…
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
… to salute the United Nations Organization and its member states, both singly and collectively, for joining forces with … that we join forces with the UN and…
EventLadybrand Four story told at the TRC
In December 1986, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres Joyce ‘Betty Boom’ Koekanyetswe, Nomasonto Mashiya and Tax Sejaname were abducted by members of the Orange Free…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… South East Asia. Across the Atlantic Ocean in the United States, as the 19th century was coming to a close, the … All National Groups Shall Have Equal Rights…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… from Britain, France, the USA and West Germany; the Arab states were supplied by the USSR. Despite the presence of the … from Britain, France, the USA and…
Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… This has structurally important implications for states and the role they can or cannot play within a … and its institutional weakness in relation to capital…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
May Day celebrated on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history, being a day of commemoration and celebration of the…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… men with multiple partners; Haitian entrants to the United States; present or past abusers of IV drugs; patients with … to be a threat to U.S national…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… have nothing to do with poverty and low wages. He further states that his first duty is to thank the South African … is made. 14-26 June , The second…
The Legal Veneer
… of dispossessed people, or the creation of 'independent states' recognized by no one, all such actions were clothed … in July 1990. There have also been…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… the government itself, when dealing with our neighbouring states. Not only has South Africa concluded treaties with the Marxist states of Angola and…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… other slaves were sentenced. Henry Rikes (Brenton memoirs) states that he was (probably on Collin’s recommendation) … numbers -ES Reddy in his collection of…
Address to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra 06 October 2000
… fighters began to train. One after another, new African states came into being, and above the world's horizon loomed … that we need to ensure that we build…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… as well as the under UNESCO Constitution which inter alia states, 'since it is in minds of men that wars begin, it is …
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… from it in the struggle to transform society. After 1950, states a CP historian: "Party members were to continue …
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
… made by both the European Union and the United States of America in the past few days substantially to …
PlaceKgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre
The new centre will celebrate- Africa’s Ancient History, highlighting one of the World’s oldest known dinosaur embryos ever discovered. With interactive…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… October 1929 (also known as “Black Tuesday”), the United States (US) stock market crashed which initiated the Great …
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
Historic shipwrecks are time capsules of their time, they are often untouched for decades, sometimes centuries, until they are discovered. Everything onboard…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… and survival. Writing about this period Alex Hepple states: "It was a struggle of white men, striving for a … South African Senate, used the occasion to…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
Contents Introduction The concept of segregation Discriminatory legislation up to 1924 Political Legislation Economic Legislation Legislation regarding…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… In the face of this development, she stayed in the United States (US) and married Stokely Carmichael, a Black Panther … struggle progressed. Still others,…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… apartheid.’” When Hallett was offered a job in the United States, he took it. In the 1980s, Hallett worked at the … Amsterdam When Hallett decided to leave…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Kuhn, Mr. Gordon Winter, and Mr. P.C. Swanepoel. Winter states that he knew of a fellow agent, Keith Wallace, who was … in the war had been entirely…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… United Nations General Assembly makes the request to all states to prevent all cultural, academic, sporting and other …